indiscreet
/ˌɪndɪsˈkɹit/
adjectivelacking discretion; injudicious
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1. it's just gratuitous they don't question the facts it's just gratuitous the attack on you mr . Holmes that you were indiscreet in mentioning this conversation to others
2. If I can ask an indiscreet question, how many of you have tattoos?
3. I wouldn't be so indiscreet as to say.
tortious
/tˈɔːɹʃəs/
adjectiveof or pertaining to the nature of a tort
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1. The Tribal Court of Appeals held that by causing tortious injury within the forum, the beer company subjected itself to service of process, and thereby fell within the terms of the long-arm statute.
2. The plaintiffs are arguing that the lawsuit falls under these exceptions the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as a commercial activity, and because of the tortious harm or death that resulted from the Chinese government's negligence in handling the coronavirus outbreak.
tortuous
/ˈtɔɹtʃəwəs/
adjectivehighly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
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1. Eventually school and its tortuous tedium would return.
2. My profession shares with you that mission, be always arduous, often tortuous, and yet essential pursuit of truth.
3. My profession shares with you that mission, be always arduous, often tortuous, and yet essential pursuit of truth.
4. The flick had a somewhat tortuous path to the screen.
5. I published tortuous essays in obscure journals.
torturous
/ˈtɔɹˌtʃuəs/
adjectiveextremely painful
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1. And it was torturous.
2. His death had been torturous.
3. Torturous consequences, for being in that role in a social group.
4. But for Rumer, the relationship was torturous.
5. He's torturous.
spectator
/ˈspɛkteɪtɝ/
nouna person who watches sport competitions closely
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1. We have a spectator.
2. At the parade, one million spectators gathered.
3. Yoko's skill attracts a spectator.
4. Yoko's skill attracts a spectator.
5. 8,000 spectators are in attendance at Wembley, the biggest football crowd since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
specter
/ˈspɛktɝ/
nouna mental representation of some haunting experience
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1. But somehow this specter evaded my many moves and purges.
2. And then the three crossovers are Specter, Collins and Snow.
3. The specter of mental illness looms large over the trailer.
4. "A specter, a kelpie, give us a scare."
5. The specter of mass starvation loomed.
spectrum
/ˈspɛktɹəm/
nounan orderly range of relating things
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1. The glass right, spectrum!
2. - Where do those individuals fall on that 70, 80% spectrum?
3. - "Many top scientists on the autism spectrum."
4. R spec means red spectrum.
5. usually the protector personalities within our personality spectrum.
convergent
/kənˈvɝdʒənt/
adjectivetending to come together from different directions
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1. So convergent synthesis has real advantages.
2. Narrator: Convergent evolution recycles good ideas endlessly.
3. The term for that is convergent evolution.
4. So this is convergent evolution.
5. Similarly, the homeothermy in the birds and mammals is convergent.
convergence
/kənˈvɝdʒəns/
nounthe act of converging (coming closer)
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1. However, this convergence isn't without danger.
2. And so, you have this convergence.
3. The tectonics plate convergence where it divides the North American plates of the Eurasian plate.
4. There's a convergence.
5. - It was the convergence.
to converge
/kənˈvɝdʒ/
verb(of roads, paths, lines, etc.) to lead toward a point that connects them
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1. This sequence converges to 0.
2. These two rays are converging.
3. Growth from migration and natural growth from the birth of babies converge in the urban areas.
4. 10,000 humpbacks converge for their Hawaiian luau.
5. Serious business people from all over the country converge here for this conference.
to degrade
/dɪˈɡɹeɪd/
verbreduce the level of land, as by erosion
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1. Degrade your ability to sleep.
2. Factory work is degrading.
3. And chronic stress degrades the brain.
4. So the battery hasn't degraded a huge amount.
5. Practices like monocropping, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and intensive tillage, have severely degraded one third of our soils globally.
degradation
/ˌdɛɡɹəˈdeɪʃən/
nounchanging to a lower state (a less respected state)
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1. But the degradation continues.
2. All of these things can speed degradation of any object.
3. And you see some degradation.
4. And this process produces fibrin degradation products.
5. And of course, all other meat-based proteins have that environmental degradation.
eloquent
/ˈɛɫəkwənt/
adjectiveable to utilize language to convey something well, especially in a persuasive manner
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1. Anomalies are incredibly eloquent.
2. Probably more eloquent way to say that,
3. She gave an eloquent speech at the gala dinner.
4. She's so eloquent.
5. He was sharp, eloquent.
eloquence
/ˈɛɫəkwəns/
nounthe ability to deliver a clear and strong message
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1. Eloquence was not one of them.
2. The sullen grunts of early adolescence can give way to the enormous eloquence of the poetry, diaries and songs of later teenagehood.
3. There was no eloquence about it.
4. First, at the university, he established his reputation for eloquence.
5. Initially, her beauty, eloquence, and personality endeared the people to her.
elocution
/ˌɛɫəkˈjuʃən/
nounan expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture
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1. Yeah, thank you I Was told elocution without a microphone,
2. Even the films adapted that bit of elocution.
3. I'm trained in elocution and sword fighting but when you do theater, you do whatever's on the season and in any given theater season you usually have a Shakespeare, a Tracy Letts drama, a comedy so you sort of learn all the tools.
4. Because of your wonderful elocution this morning, that we're gonna wave the penalty, so you will pay the original fine, see Inspector Quinn.
5. So, you could certainly make hay of that elocution.
soliloquy
/səˈɫɪɫəkwi/
nounspeech you make to yourself
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1. I'm writing a, I'm writing a little soliloquy here.
2. - Soliloquy, I guess?
3. It's called "FF's Soliloquy."
4. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
5. And I did that with the Hamlet soliloquy.
choral
/ˈkɔɹəɫ/
adjectiverelated to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir
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1. Basically, choral singing is about as good for you as exercise.
2. Choral singing gets the silver medal.
3. The choral stuff will be accompanied by basso continuo.
4. The choral classification you have four voice types.
5. The choral classification, you have four voice types.
choreography
/ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/
nouna show involving artistic dancing
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1. The choreography is interesting.
2. I watch the choreography.
3. Choreography is much more like dance than martial arts.
4. So I could pick up choreographies.
5. Your brother learned choreography.
to choreograph
/ˈkɔɹiəˌɡɹæf/
verbcompose a sequence of dance steps, often to music
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1. Well where were you and your sisters choreographing moves?
2. Our choreographer, Twitch, from the Ellen show, choreographed this dance with Melissa.
3. It was choreographed.
4. These creatures are not choreographed.
5. They're choreographing themselves.
